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The 2011 Redmond Readers Choice Awards


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SECURITY

Best Hardware-Based Firewall Product

23 products in category

Cisco Systems PIX Series, 34%, Winner, Five-Star Award

SonicWall Pro and TZ Series, 14.5%, Preferred Product

Barracuda Spam & Virus Firewall, 8.9%, Preferred Product

PIX continues to dominate a category in which the results were almost exactly the same as they were in 2010. PIX picks up its sixth consecutive win.

Best Software-Based Firewall Product

17 products in category

Microsoft Forefront Threat Management Gateway, 23.5%, Winner

Symantec Enterprise Firewall, 15%, Preferred Product, ISV Winner, Triple Crown

Kaspersky Laboratories Anti-Hacker, 10.8%, Preferred Product

New entrant Microsoft Forefront takes the category, and three-time ISV Winner Symantec Corp. takes a Triple Crown.

Best Security Auditing Product

53 products in category

NetWrix Change Reporter Suite, 10.3%, Winner

GFI LANguard Security Event Log Monitor, 9.3%, Preferred Product

SpectorSoft Spector 360, 9%, Preferred Product

Newcomers do well in this category, with NetWrix Corp. winning and SpectorSoft Corp. placing third.

Best Intrusion-Detection System

21 products in category

Cisco Systems Secure Intrusion Detection System, 25.4%, Winner, Five-Star Award

GFI, 12%, Preferred Product

McAfee Network Security Platform, 10.9%, Preferred Product

It's another dominating, Five-Star Award performance by Cisco Systems Inc. (which racks up six consecutive wins), but the competition behind the consistent winner is starting to tighten.

Best Intrusion-Prevention System

27 products in category

Cisco Systems Okena Stormwatch, 15.1%, Winner, Five-Star Award

Microsoft System Center Configuration Manager (SCCM), 14%, Preferred Product

McAfee Host Intrusion Prevention, 10.1%, Preferred Product

Cisco Systems Inc. once again rules this category with a sixth consecutive victory, but SCCM is catching up.

Best Smart Card/Biometric/Two-Factor Authentication System

15 products in category

RSA SecureID, 35.6%, Winner, Five-Star Award

Microsoft Identity Lifecycle Manager, 23.9%, Preferred Product

Quest Defender, 6.1%, Preferred Product

RSA is unassailable in this category, winning another Five-Star Award in 2011 and six category titles in a row.

Best Secure Messaging Tool or Service (Spam and Content Filtering)

67 products in category

Microsoft/Sybari Antigen for Exchange, 11.3%, Winner

Barracuda Spam & Virus Firewall, 10.6%, Preferred Product, ISV Winner

Symantec Mail Security, 5.6%, Preferred Product

It's two in a row for Microsoft here, but Barracuda Networks Inc. overtook Symantec Corp. for ISV Winner and narrowed the gap on the product from Redmond.

Best Antivirus Tool

24 products in category

Symantec Endpoint Protection, 20.5%, Winner, ISV Winner, Five-Star Award

Microsoft Security Essentials, 14.6%, Preferred Product

McAfee Total Protection, 11%, Preferred Product

A name change from Symantec Antivirus hasn't stopped Endpoint Protection from winning this category again, for this sixth year in a row. Microsoft made a strong showing, though.

Best Anti-Spyware Tool

17 products in category

McAfee Total Protection, 23%, Winner

Trend Micro Antispyware, 16.3%, Preferred Product

Webroot AntiSpyware, 10.9%, Preferred Product

McAfee Inc., winner from 2006 to 2009 in this category, avenges its loss to Webroot Software Inc. in 2010 by coming back to win in 2011. Trend Micro Inc. registers another strong performance.

* New Category *

Best User Activity Monitoring Product

10 products in category

Websense, 25%, Winner

SpectorSoft Spector 360, 20.5%, Preferred Product

Barracuda, 14.7%, Preferred Product

Websense Inc. beats out SpectorSoft Corp. to win the first edition of this category.

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Microsoft and Symantec in Firewall , Symantec Endpoint Protection and Microsoft security essential and McAfee total protection are the best in Antivirus section. :)

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